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Very cool.

Oh my god. David Bowie and Cher medley on the Cher Show in 1975. This is awesome in its awesomeness! God bless Youtube.

Yeah those hoods were a lot higher on the old cars....My younger brother had my mom's old Taurus (lower sloped hood)when he was in highschool and one of his friends actually put a huge dent (collapsed it basically) in the front fender doing just that. My brother said that he came running full force to slide across the hood, misjudged his jump and just slammed into the side of the car midair. Luckily for my brother the car was on it's last legs. I came to visit and saw that and cracked up...

It's OK AJ, with all of the exposure to Smokey and the Bandit and the Dukes of Hazards we all wanted to dress that way.... You also probably tried to slide across the hood of your parents car. I know I did. or crawl in and out of the open car windows.

I guess it's more the embrace of a ironic/nostalgic look at working class culture, instead of straight up WT, which is a different beast all together. I grew up in a small rural town with a significant poor white population, so I know it well. Trucker/Gimmee hats were the worst hipster trends. Oy! Plastic mesh hats? Are you serious?

^ Ice cold PBR is good for the price. Warm PBR, not so much. But I am more of the Highlife sort of guy. I could never be a hipster with my body type, I am neither pleasantly chubby (the pot belly hipsters) or skinny framed. I have wide shoulders and a thick athletic build so I kind of look silly in the hipster uniform.

LOL. That sounds vaguely like some sort of medical condition.

wow, this going to be a painful couple of years

Cuyahoga County cities may someday merge under budget pressures, with county support Published: Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 6:47 PM Updated: Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 11:13 AM By Laura Johnston, The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio -- As communities see their populations dropping and the state chopping funding, Cuyahoga County municipalities are getting serious about regional collaboration, County Executive Ed FitzGerald said Tuesday. Some suburbs are even quietly talking about merging, FitzGerald said after his regional collaboration director briefed County Council members during their weekly meeting. "We can't force them on [merging]," FitzGerald said. "But if they're interested in pursuing it, we'll help facilitate it." .... Read More At: http://www.cleveland.com/cuyahoga-county/index.ssf/2011/03/cuyahoga_county_council_urges_regional_collaboration.html

I am finally getting the countertops installed today! Yay! Anybody know where the home renovation thread went? I tried searching for it but had no luck.

^yeah the ro-co-co ro-co-co's are very annoying. The two best songs are "Month of May" and "We Used to Wait" , both really don't tie into the central theme too much, which probably says something about the effectiveness of the theme.

The Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs" finally clicked for me. I had listened to it a few times before but it never worked for me. I guess I was expecting Neon Bible part II. I am pretty sure I will end up listening to it continously for the next couple of weeks. Is this the first "urban planning" album BTW? Most of the song lyrics sound like discussions on here...

^ Ha. That reminded me of a stand up routine that Rob Riggle (formerly of the Daily Show) has about taking the red eye from NY to vegas surrounded by 6 chachi guys from Long Island... I can't do it justice, it's fricking hilarious. I'll try to link the youtube when I get home.

Worse than Kevin Costner's did??? Did you know that Robin Hood's father developed the Magna Carta? Did you know that the French invaded England? Did you know that English Archers were mounted and found that their long bows would work wonderfully in close quarters instead of at a distance and they frequently engaged in hand to hand combat? Most amazing...did you know that the French used Higgins Boats for military landings (as the Allies did on D-Day)? It's a movie and i suspend my disbelief most of the time...but give me a break. that was appalling. I recently watched this with a few of my history geek friends who had seen it before. They talked it up to me for months in advance, "you've got to see it, they did such a good job!", "they approached it in the most plausible way possible", etc. They got me good. The movie really did start out fairly well. But, it went downhill fast in the last act, and when the WWII landing ships showed up, I groaned and they turned to me and said "Surprise, it's crap!". B@stards! One thing- the mounted archers are more plausible than they at first appear. I just got done reading an excellent account of Henry V's Agincourt campaign. In fact 150 years later the English did indeed mount their archers for campaign, though they didn't ride into battle and dismount to shoot, dragoon style. So, "plausible", though not accurate. I had no plans on seeing this, but after hearing how bad it is, I must admit my intrested has grown. Perhaps I should wait for the directors cut complete with Ewok gliders...

Well, Fitzgerald obviously gets what the cities in the county are doing to each other.... American Greetings won't get county money for new headquarters, Ed FitzGerald says Published: Friday, March 11, 2011, 9:00 PM Updated: Monday, March 14, 2011, 10:03 AM By Janet Cho, The Plain Dealer View full sizePlain Dealer fileAmerican Greetings headquarters in Brooklyn, Ohio. CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland-area suburbs are likely to dangle a variety of financing packages to attract American Greetings' headquarters. But one thing the card maker won't see is money from Cuyahoga County. American Greetings should keep its headquarters in Brooklyn, County Executive Ed FitzGerald said this week. The county will help American Greetings Corp. find a site but will not offer financial aid, he said. "I don't want to give them any incentive to move from one city in Cuyahoga County to another," Fitzgerald said, especially if it means leaving aworking class, blue-collar suburb like Brooklyn for a wealthier suburb that can afford more grants and tax incentives.... Read more at: http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2011/03/american_greetings_wont_get_co.html

Beautiful!

*bump for Mrs. CBC* First bouts of the season are tomorrow night (3/12/2011) at the CSU Wolstein Center doors open at 5:00, bouts start at 6:00.

Hts Don't shoot me if I go too layman... Tapatalk is an app for all of the major mobile devices that acts as a simple and intuitive frontend to 1000's of internet forums. It interfaces with several of the most popular forum platforms at a data structure level (hence the availibility once Rich upgraded us up to Simple machines 2.0)and presents the posts and forums in an easy to read and finger friendly navigation page design. It also has support for Personal Messages and functions such as unread posts. It's an alternative to using the forum's mobile page or using the full webpage on the device's webbrowser. It costs $2.99 and is easy to use. Just install it, look up UrbanOhio, log in and you are good to go. Hts how are you viewing UO currently on you handheld? I always used the full page in the ipod browser even though it was hard to finger navigate the links, the mobile page felt too 1995.

^^^I hadn't seen it (nor do I plan to). It sounds sh!tastic, doesn't sound like you even need a history degree for that one to be painful. Russel Crowe does tend to have a Nic Cage streak in his selection of roles sometimes...

Worse than Kevin Costner's did???

Been tied up since these numbers came out. Nothing surprising. Our country is not growing by current citizens, its growing by immigration so until Ohio can start attracting immigrants, this is what we will face.

J40Jeff, I just installed Tapatalk on my Touch, any tricks that I should know about? It seems pretty straighforward.

I like the exterior more than I initially did too. I just hope that the coating on the concrete panels that protect it, allow it to age better than many of the concrete sided buildings from the 1970's. Stone just weathers better. One thing I do love about this design is the open lobby that has the ramp that goes down to the exhibition level. I can't wait to see it in person.

Ugh. People who don't scoot over in the elevator after people get off. Do you think I like standing with my back flat against the sidewall???